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The World’s Biggest Plant to Suck Carbon Dioxide From the Sky Is Up and Running

GizModo VR

The world’s biggest direct air capture (DAC) plant is set to come online in Iceland on Wednesday. The moment is an important one in developing new technologies to help suck carbon dioxide out of the air —but raises a whole host of questions on the future of how we’re going to put those technologies to use. Read more.

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How science fiction precedes science fact and what it means for the metaverse

Hypergrid Business

I wrote my own ViFi novel, MetaWars , in 2010 after the Icelandic ash cloud grounded flights across Europe. Anyone who spends their days working from home, on what feels like non-stop Zoom meetings or Microsoft Teams sessions, is living a type of virtual reality. I wonder if that’s the direction of travel for Microsoft.

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3 Ways Generative AI Is Making Our World A Better Place

Bernard Marr

Preserving The Icelandic Language What country doesn’t love its native language? This is a particular concern for the country of Iceland. So, the government of Iceland has collaborated with OpenAI and is using the GPT-4 language model to help preserve the Icelandic language. (As

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Oculus For Business is now available for all companies

The Ghost Howls

At the time of writing they are: United States Canada Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany Iceland Italy Netherlands Norway Poland Republic of Ireland Spain Sweden Switzerland UK Australia Japan New Zealand Taiwan. You can check the countries available for delivery of a Business Quest at this link.

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Microsoft to Expand HoloLens Availability to 29 More European Markets in December

Road to VR

Microsoft announced at their at Future Decoded conference in London that HoloLens, the company’s augmented reality headset, will be expanding its international availability to include all of the European Union in December. image courtesy Microsoft. image courtesy Microsoft. .” image courtesy Microsoft.

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Meta Launches ‘Horizon Worlds’ Closed Beta on Smartphones

Road to VR

There’s no word when the company plans to roll out access on browsers either, which the beta’s FAQ says will broaden availability of the platform to iOS devices on Safari, and Google Chrome, Safari, or Microsoft Edge on laptops and desktops.

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The Ghost Howls’s VR Week Peek (2019.10.27): Quest sales are not taking off, Minecraft Earth launches in Early Access and much more!

The Ghost Howls

Image by Microsoft). Microsoft wants to play safe, though, so it is now launching it only in two small countries , so that to identify possible problems only in a small subset of the worldwide population before the big launch. The two lucky countries are New Zealand and Iceland. Microsoft details 3 interesting R&D projects.